saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) (01/31/91)
For those who want the earliest access to a distribution kit of the current
version of umoria (that's 5.2.2), it's spending a brief period before
massive release on SCAT bbs, in the suburbs of Chicago, IL. Phone number
(708)231-7227. It's packed up with the oldest version of arc I could find,
so ANYONE should be able to unpack it. Compiled with Mark Williams C, but
the space penalty that imposes was made up for by compressing the
executable file. There don't seem to be any major bugs, but I thought that
when I distributed 4.87, so why believe me?
If you pick this up, please don't redistribute it beyond an immediate group
that you can tell personally if a problem shows up. And by all means, if
any problems show up, tell me immediately. At present, I plan to start
spreading this around in a big way around Feb 10, unless something bad
happens.
I/O is still through a pseudo-curses that uses the VT52 emulator, so it
works in any video mode that cooperates with the VT52 emulator (I think
that's everything except 320 x 200 color).
Again: I'll be sending this lots of places SOON, but this is a chance for
the least patient people to get it early, and to catch machine-dependent
bugs before they spread to too many copies.
Steve saj@chinet.chi.il.us SCAT: stephen jacobs
Genie: S.JACOBS6saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) (02/27/91)
One all clear, anyway. The mystery bug I wasn't able to reproduce in the
recently-distributed umoria was due to having slightly incompatible versions
of the game share savefiles. Not the most likely situation in routine use.
Steve